C. Bryan Love, Ph.D.

Ph.D., University of Maryland
M.A., University of Alabama
B.A., University of South Carolina

Expertise/Interests

Dr. Love’s expertise is English Renaissance Drama / Theater History, with a focus on the roles of the children’s companies in the London theatrical marketplace during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Other scholarly interests include Early English and Early American literatures; Early Modern print culture; the American Renaissance; and First-Year Composition.

Topics of less scholarly works include classic cars and motorcycles.

Accomplishments

Dissertation

“The Private Theaters in Crisis: Strategies at Blackfriars and Paul’s, 1606–07.” Dissertation. University of Maryland, 2006.

“Private and Public Plays in the Private Theaters: Speculation on the Mercenary Methods of Second Paul’s and Second Blackfriars.” Renaissance Papers 2008. Ed. Christopher Cobb. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2009. 89–112.

“The Long Winters’s ‘Ultimatum’: Language and the Death of Romance,” Faculty Forum (University of South Carolina Salkehatchie), Spring 2009.